let's start with american padded paper or ampad. romney was in charge when bain acquired this company in 1992. by 1999, ampad, they were bankrupt. 385 employees were laid off. bain liquidated its interests and made, hmm, only $102 million. the former managing director of bain capital says romney was directly responsible for ampad's layoffs, but he knew where the money was, didn't he? mitt romney did the same thing to this company, gst steel. bain emerged, he went ahead and put it together with another steel maker in south carolina. by 2001, gst steel was bankrupt. and another 750 americans were out of a job. bain made at least, let's see, $12 million on the acquisition and collected $900,000 a year in what they call consulting fees, when some guy calls you up, what do you think we ought to do? fire the workers, send the jobs to china and take the freaking money. are we starting to see a pattern here? bain acquired ddi while romney was in charge in 1997. the company made electronic circuit boards. filed for bankruptcy in 2003. some o